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Volume 28

Public Law 53–147

For the relief of the bona fide purchasers of land in section thirty-six, township one north, range nine west (San Bernardino meridian), in the State of California.

Approved March 1, 1895

Statutory text

An Act

For the relief of the bona fide purchasers of land in section thirty-six, township one north, range nine west (San Bernardino meridian), in the State of California.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That all the right, title, and interest that the Government of the United States had, or may have had, in and to section thirty-six, in township one north and range nine west (San Bernardino meridian), in the State of California, prior to or after the first day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred anti seventy seven, be, and the same is hereby, released, relinquished, and forever quit claimed to the bona fide purchasers of the same holding under Richard Eads or John J. Bodkin, who purchased the same from the State of California as school lands, and to the heirs and assigns

Payment.

of such purchasers, and that upon payment to the United States of the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre by each of them for the land so owned by them, respectively, such purchasers and holders shall be entitled to receive patents therefor.

Approved, March 1, 1895.

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